William Overington

My favourite as a kid with its art deco looks and having the speed record of 126mph. Back then I didn't realise it was one of a quite a few class A4's. Designed by Nigel Gresley and built in 1938 by London & North Eastern Railway in Doncaster.
I'll likely shrink it down a bit so there's more sky above the funnel but have left it like that for now so it's easier to work on and see the details.
The outline's without the background otherwise it looks even more of a mess.

Yes, thank you.
William
 

Thanks, William.
Out of curiosity, did my hint about selecting an object in the .afdesign file and looking at the Color panel help? (I would test that myself, but you didn't provide the .afdesign version.)

The future has arrived.
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/138654-artwork-for-greetings-cards/&do=findComment&comment=796743
William
 

Rather than pointing us at a page, please (in the future) point us to the post. You should see a "..." icon on the post. If you click it, one of the options is Share, which will give you the URL of that exact post, which you can copy and paste.

Celebrating the Viewdata Revolution.

Got it now.

LOL, @William Overington! Another Groundhog Day ...

Following through to the links from those posts I do not remember doing them.
https://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=4519
I have just found the whole thread and I am starting to explore.
This was in the days of an old Windows xp machine that broke.
I wonder what can be recovered from the High-Logic forum.
Only just over eight years ago and it needs archaeology!
William
 
 

Take a look here:
Re: Saving preview sample text in the project file

I know you use High-Logic FontCreator. Doesn’t your version have a ‘User notes’ toolbar? I think it’s been included for the past seven or eight years.

If you add a text file anyway why not mentioning as many (relevant) information as possible?
Also, a PDF may be useful aside your Affinity file, possibly with text converted to curves. Currently PDF is quite likely the more common file type, in particular for archiving. (PDF/X, respectively PDF/A (not available for Affinity export)).

I just re-open the .afdesign file, select the object, and look in the Color panel (or, for text, click on the Fill well in the Context Toolbar). If it has a Pantone Color, it is clearly shown there.

In a Designer file an originally used Pantone color would show both in the document palette and in the Color panel so that when you have an object with spot color assignment, following should be shown:
 
This information is not lost when you save and re-open your Designer files. Spot color assignments would be shown on the Color panel also when you open PDF files that have spot color plates.

Not sure if I got you right. There is CMYK print, a JPG and their initial .afdesign document, right? Doesn't the object in AD which got initially the Pantone color assigned still report its color in the Colors Panel if you select the object? Respectively, what do you want to detect if you know already the number you are looking for is 8644?
 

I may be wrong, but I think the answer is "no".  The Affinity suite has a very weak color palette mechanism compared to CorelDRAW, and very very weak (nearly nonexistent) prepress and separations support.  So in CD, I draw with any paletted Pantone, HKS, Trumatch, FOCOLTONE, TOYO, etc. color, and the object properties tell me it's colored PANTONE 114C (or whatever), not the RGB or CMYK approximation, and will highlight the appropriate entry in the color picker palette.  That's true whether I've set my document color model to RGB or CMYK, either way.  I've never gotten Affinity Designer to do that for me.

Hmm, the Affinity online help here only tells ...
 

How would I make a coffee mug like this one using affinity designer on my iPad?

CEWE Photobooks were often recommended on DaisyTrail.

I am atempting to make my own photobook of a holiday which will eventually be ring bound. I have finished producing the project which amounts to 58 pages. I intend to use double sided glossy paper. I want to print Duplex. However, If I choose Plain Paper, duplex can be selected. However, if I choose photo paper. then glossy, Duplex is greyed out and cannot be selected.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks
Richard
 

FWIW, I downloaded the two images, opened one of them in AP, & added the second one aligned over it, & set the top one's blend mode to "Difference." The result was pure black, indicating to me both images are exactly the same.

Though, apart from the vertical edges, the parallelogram does not look to have parallel edges! I am laughing out loud.
I have only just noticed the curve to which you refer. Yet is that white line along the edge of the platform really curved or could it be something to do with the lens of the webcam?
Wllliam

In the bottom image of the duplicate images the carriages appear to be "more" horizontal.

I do. I think it’s a trick of perspective, perhaps aided by the slight curvature of the track, but if you overlay a parallelogram it’s clear that the angle is the same.

Well, it has long been the situation.
I used it in the first image, the one about the poem using language-independent glyphs, in the following thread.
 
 
That facility allowed me to have paint outside the canvas so as to get colour to the edges.
Here is a picture of what appears on screen.
 
 

 
When I exported the jpg file the cropping to the edge of the canvas was done automatically for me by the software as part of the exporting action.
William